The Libertarian Party of Florida held its state convention June 6-7 in Daytona Beach. The News-Journal, daily newspaper for Daytona Beach, has this lengthy news story about the convention.
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On June 6, the Federal Election Commission filed this in the U.S. Supreme Court in National Republican Senatorial Committee v FEC, 24-621. The FEC says it supports the Democratic Party’s desire to intervene in the case, which is about the federal law that prohibits parties from spending much money in support of their own nominees if the party and the candidate are coordinating with each other.
Both the Republican Party and the FEC agree that the limits on such party spending violate the First Amendment. But if the U.S. Supreme Court is to take the case, there needs to be some organization that will defend the federal limits. The Democratic Party wants to defend the limits, so letting the Democrats into the case at this late point would facilitate that.
It is somewhat strange that the Democratic Party wants to defend a law that injures political parties.
On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Republican National Committee v Genser, 24-786. This is the case over whether voters whose original postal ballot was invalid, and who then cast a provisional ballot. The Republican Party did not believe that the provisional ballot should be allowed.
On June 5, a New Jersey state trial court let a voter switch back to the Democratic Party after the legal deadline. The voter persuaded the judge that election officials had mistakenly switched his enrollment to the Constitution Party without his knowledge. See this story.
On June 5, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr dismissed his ballot access case, because earlier this year the legislature passed a bill that lets independent candidates for president circulate a petition before having chosen a vice-presidential nominee.